A young woman was raped in isolated woods near Wheatsheaf Common, a court has heard.

Scott Hillman, 18, of De Lara Way, in Woking , pleaded not guilty at a trial at Guildford Crown Court this week to one charge of rape and another of sexual assault by penetration.

On the first day of the trial on Tuesday (October 6), the jury was played video evidence from the "petrified" alleged victim who said the defendant had followed her into the woods by Wheatsheaf Common on April 6 last year when he had held her down and assaulted her.

The pair had met in a pub in nearby Woking town centre earlier that day. The woman told officers two days after the incident: “He came to sit next to me and I told him to leave me alone.

“He kissed and kept putting his tongue down my throat," she said. “I was very, very scared. I tried to get up but he wouldn’t let me move. He wanted me to go for a wee.”

She said he put his hands inside her leggings.

“I told him to stop quite a few times,” she told officers. “I was petrified. I was isolated and it was really, really painful.”

The woman’s story came to light the following day and Hillman was arrested.

She attended a victim examination where internal bruising was discovered, as well as bruising to her arm.

She told police about the alleged sexual assault, but it was not until two weeks later that she told officers she had been raped.

Prosecuting, Daniel Fugallo outlined the case to the jury, saying the defendant put his fingers in the victim’s vagina and then his penis.

“She did not want those things to happen,” he said. “She did made clear that she did not want those things to happen, but he did them anyway.”

On being arrested, Hillman denied entering the woods with the woman or engaging in any sexual activity with her.

However, Mr Fugallo told the jury that the defendant’s account might change during the trial.

“It may be that he will admit going into the woods and that there was some sexual touching but that everything he did was with her consent, or that he believed it was with her consent,” he said.

The prosecutor also prepared the jury to see CCTV footage of the pair leaving the town centre, which he said may indicate that the defendant was not following woman all the way, as she had originally told police, but that they were walking together for some of the time.